Estimation of mediation effects for zero-inflated regression models

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 26, 2012, Pages 3118-3132

  Wang, Wei ^a   Albert, Jeffrey M ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal mediation analysis; Indirect effect; Mediation formula; Monte Carlo integration; Sensitivity analysis; Zero inflation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CAUSAL MODELING; DENTAL PROCEDURE; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAGNITUDE ESTIMATION METHOD; MEDIATION ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING;

ADOLESCENT; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BIOMETRY; CAUSALITY; DENTAL CARIES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84867544271     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.5380     Document Type: Article

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